Ontology alignment using relative entropy for semantic uncertainty analysis

Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, NAECON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 140-148

  Blasch, Erik P ^a   Dorion, Éric ^a   Valin, Pierre ^a   Bossé, Eloi ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information fusion; Information theory; Ontology alignment; Situational assessment; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT; HETEROGENEOUS ONTOLOGY; INFORMATION QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; KL-DIVERGENCE; MANUAL OPERATIONS; MARITIME DOMAINS; MENTAL MODEL; ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; RELATIVE ENTROPY; SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTIC LABELS; SHARED ONTOLOGIES; SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

ALIGNMENT; ENTROPY; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RATING; SEMANTICS; STANDARDIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952670286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAECON.2010.5712938     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (84)

1. T. R. Gruber, "A translation approach to portable ontologies," Knowledge Acquisition, 5(2):199-220, 1993.
2. T. R. Gruber. Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 43, Issues 4-5, pp. 907-928, November 1995. Situational Awareness
3. E. P. Blasch "Assembling an Information-fused Human-Computer Cognitive Decision Making Tool," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, June 2000, pp. 11-17.
4. E. Blasch, I. Kadar, K. Hintz, J. Biermann, C. Chong, and S. Das, "Resource Management Coordination with Level 2/3 Fusion", IEEE AES Magazine, Mar. 2008.
5. E. Blasch, I. Kadar, J. Salerno, M. M. Kokar, S. Das, G. M. Powell, D. D. Corkill, and E. H. Ruspini, "Issues and challenges of knowledge representation and reasoning methods in situation assessment (Level 2 Fusion)", J. of Adv. in Information Fusion, Dec. 2006.
6. E. Blasch, M. Pribilski, B. Roscoe, et. al., "Fusion Metrics for Dynamic Situation Analysis," Proc SPIE 5429, 2004.
7. G. Chen, D. Shen, C. Kwan, J. Cruz, M. Kruger, E. Blasch, "Game Theoretic Approach to Threat Prediction and Situation Awareness," Advances in Journal for Information Fusion, July 2008.
8. M. Wei, G. Chen, J Cruz, L. Haynes, M. Kruger, & E. Blasch "Game-Theoretic Modeling and Control of Military Operations with Partially Emotional Civilian Players", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 44, No. 3, Elsevier, Feb, 2008.
9. R. M. Colomb and M. N. Ahmad, "Merging Ontologies requires interlocking institutional worlds," App. Ontology, IOS Press, 2007.
10. R. M. Colomb and M. N. Ahmad, "A perdurant ontology for interoperating information systems based on interlocking institutional worlds," App. Ontology, Vol. 5, IOS Press, 2010.
11. B. Drabble, T. Black, C. Kinzig, and G. Whitted, "Ontology based dependency analysis: Understanding the impacts of decisions in a collaborative environment," Int. Symp. on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2009.
12. E. Blasch, É. Dorion, P. Valin, E. Bossé, and J. Roy, "Ontology Alignment in Geographical Hard-Soft Information Fusion Systems," Fusion2010, 2010.
13. D. L. Hall, J. Llinas, M. McNeese, and T. Mullen, "A Framework for Dynamic Hard/Soft Fusion," Fusion08, 2008.
14. M. Schorlemmer and Y. Kalfoglou, "Institutionalizing Ontologybased semantic integration," App. Ontology, Vol. 3, IOS Press, 2008.
15. S. Mencke, M. Kunz, D. Rud, R. Dumke, "Quality-Driven, Semantic Information System Integration: The QuaD Framewok," Ch. 7 in Cases on Semantic Interoperability for Information Systems Integration: Practices and Applications, Ed. Y. Kalfoglou, 2010.
16. M. Duckham and M. Worboys, "Automated Geographical Information Fusion and Ontology Alignment", Ch 6 in Spatial Data on the Web (eds.) A. Belussi, B. Catania, E. Clementini, and E. Ferrari, Springer, 2007.
17. P. Smart, "Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Situational Awareness," DTC/WP270, Univ. Southampton, UK, 2005.
18. C. J. Matheus, M. M. Kokar, K. Baclawski, J. A. Letkowski, C. Hall, M. L. Hinman, and D. M. Boulware, "SAWA: an assistant for higher-level fusion and situation awareness," Proc SPIE 5813, 2005.
19. K. Wallenius, "Support for Situation Awareness in Command and Control," Fusion07, 2007.
20. N. Baumgartner and W. Retschitzegger, "Towards a Situation Awareness Framework Based on Primitive Relations," IEEE Conf. Info. Decision & Control, 2007.
21. N. Kartha and A. Novstup, "Ontology and rule-based knowledge representation and decision support," Proc. SPIE 7352, 2009.
22. H. J. Lee, Ontology-based Data Fusion within a Net-centric Information Exchange Framework, PhD Dissertation, Univ. Arizona, 2009.
23. L. T. Vizenor, O. Bodenreider, and A. T. McCray, "Auditing associative relations across two knowledge sources," J. Biomed. Informatics, 42, 2009.
24. A. Nikolov, V. Uren, and E. Motta, "Towards Data Fusion in a multi-ontology Environment," Linked Data on the Web (LDOW09), Spain, 2009.
25. A.-C. Boury-Brisset, "Ontology-based approach for information Fusion," Fusion03, 2003.
26. D. L. McGuinness, "Ontologies for Information Fusion," Presentation at Fusion03, 2003.
27. E. P. Blasch and S. Plano, "Ontological Issues in Higher levels of Fusion: User Refinement in the Fusion Process," Fusion03, 2003.
28. C. Nowak, "On ontologies for high-level information fusion," Fusion03, 2003.
29. A.-C. Boury-Brisset, "Ontological Engineering for Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment: a Goal-driven approach," Fusion07, 2007.
30. K. B. Laskey, P. C. G. da Costa, E. Wright and K. Laskey, "Probabilistic Ontology for Net-Centric Fusion," Fusion07, 2007.
31. M. Gagnon, "Ontology-Based Integration of Data Sources," Fusion07, 2007.
32. M. Zandipour, B. J. Rhodes, and N. A. Bomberger, "COALESCE : A Probabilistic Ontology-Based Scene Understanding Approach," Fusion08, 2008.
33. J. Roy and A. Auger, "Knowledge and Ontological Engineering Techniques for Use in Developing Knowledge-Based Situation Analysis Support Systems," Defence R&D Canada - Valcartier Tech. Mem. 2006-757, 2008.
34. A. P. Stirtzinger and C. S. Anken, "Semi-automated ontology generation and evolution," Proc. SPIE 7347, 2009.
35. R. Hull, K. Bimson, R. Hyle, and R. Thiebauth, "Semantic serviceoriented architecture for range operation: evolving the role of semantics in the enterprise," Proc. SPIE 7350, 2009.
36. K. Sambhoos, J. Llinas, and E. Little, "Graphical Methods for Real- Time Fusion and Estimation with Soft Message Data," Fusion08, 2008.
37. E. Bosse, J. Roy, and S. Wark, Concepts, Models, and Tools for Information Fusion, Artech House, 2007.
38. D. A. Lambert, "Tradeoffs in the Design of Higher-level Fusion Systems," Fusion07, 2007.
39. S. Das, High-Level Data Fusion, Artech House, 2008.
40. Standards Guide, ISO/TC 211 Geographic Information/ Geomatics, June 2009, available at http://www.isotc211.org/Uncertainty
41. C. Liu, D. Grenier, A-L. Jousselmen, and E. Bosse, "Reducing Algorithm Complexity for Computing an Aggregate Uncertainty Measure," IEEE Trans. on Sys Man and Cybernetics - A, Vol. 37, No. 5, Sept 2007.
42. G. J. Klir and B. Yuan, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995.
43. E. Blasch, "Derivation of a Reliability Metric for Fused Data Decision Making," IEEE NAECON Conf., July 2008.
44. L. Bai and E. Blasch, "Two-Way Handshaking Circular Sequential k-out-of-n Congestion System," IEEE Journal of Reliability, Mar 2008.
45. I. Kadar, E. Blasch, and C. Yang, "Network and Service Management Effects on Distributed Net-Centric Fusion Data Quality," July, Fusion08.
46. E. P. Blasch and Jim Schmitz, "Uncertainty Issues in Data Fusion", NSSDF 02, August 2002. Semantic Distance
47. M. A. Rodriguez. Assessing semantic similarity among entity classes. PhD. Thesis, University of Maine, 2000.
48. É. Dorion and S. Fortin, "Multi-Source Semantic Integration - Revisiting the Theory of Signs and Ontology Alignment Principles," Fusion07, 2007.
49. S. K. Card, T. P. Moran, and A. Newell. The psychology of humancomputer interaction. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983.
50. J. Mackinlay, S. K. Car, and G. G. Robertson, "A Semantic Analysis of the Design Space of Input Devices," Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, Erlbaum, 1990.
51. J. Rasmussen, A. M. Pejtersen, and L. P. Goodstein, Cognitive Systems Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 1994.
52. D. A. Norman & S. Draper, (Eds.), User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1986. Cognitive Bias
53. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List-of-cognitive-biases
54. A. Tversky and D. Kahneman, "Availability: a heuristic for judging frequency and probability," Cognitive Psychology 5, 207-232, 1973.
55. P. C. Wason, Peter C. "On the failure to eliminate hypotheses in a conceptual task", Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Psychology Press) 12 (3): 129-140, 1960.
56. R. Nisbett and L. Ross, Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1980.
57. H. J., Einhorn and R. M. Hogarth, "Confidence in judgment: Persistence of the illusion of validity," Psychological Review, 85, 396-416, 1978.
58. J. E. Cannon-Bowers, E. Salas, and S. Converse, S. "Shared Mental Models in Expert Team Decision-Making,. in J. Castellan (ed.), Individual and Group Decision-Making: Current Issues. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum and Associates, Inc., 1993.
59. N. H. Anderson, Foundations of information integration theory. New York: Academic Press, 1981.
60. G. A. Miller, "The magical number seven plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." Psychological Review, 63,81-97, 1956.
61. H. A. Simon, "How big is a chunk?," Science, 183, 482-488, 1974.
62. P. M. Fitts, "The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement," Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 47, No. 6, June 1954.
63. W. E. Hick, "On the rate of gain of information," Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, ,4, 11-26, 1952. Information Theory
64. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, 2 ed., New York, Wiley, 2006.
65. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback-Leibler-divergence
66. S. Kullback, Information theory and statistics, John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1959.
67. A. Rényi, Probability Theory. New York: Elsevier, 1970.
68. Y. Rubner, C. Tomasi, L. J. and Guibas, "The Earth Mover's distance as a metric for image retrieval," International Journal of Computer Vision, 40(2): 99-121, 2000. (Pubitemid 32136368)
69. H. Jeffreys Theory of Probability. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press; Oxford, U.K.: 1961.
70. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual-information
71. C. H. Coombs, R. M. Dawes, & A. Tversky, Mathematical Psychology: An Elementary Introduction, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970.
72. W. H, Press, B. P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky, S. A. & W. T, Vetterling, Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 634, 1988.
73. I. Witten and E. Frank, Data Mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2005.
74. H. Chen, G. Chen, E. Blasch, and P. Douville, "Information Theoretic Measures for Performance Evaluation and Comparison ," ISIF Conf. Fusion09, 2009. AIS
75. Z. Li, H. Leung, P. Valin, and H. When, "High Level Data Fusion System for CanCoastWatch", Fusion07, 2007.
76. M. Nilsson, J. van Laere, T. Ziemke and J. Edlund "Extracting rules from expert operators to support situation awareness in maritime surveillance", Fusion08.
77. D. Waller, M. R. MacLeod, and T. McCallum, "Measures of Effectiveness and Performance for the Northern Watch Station," DRDC CORA TM 2008-053, July 2009.
78. C. Yang and E. Blasch, "Kalman Filtering with Nonlinear State Constraints", IEEE Transactions AES, Vol. 45, No. 1, Jan. 2009.
79. C. Yang, and E. Blasch, W. Garber, and R. Mitchell, "A Track-ID Maneuver Indicator from Target's Range-Doppler Image, J. Advances in Information Fusion, July, 2007.
80. D. Husjord and E. Pedersen, "On Guidance and Decision-Support Displays in Ship-to-Ship Lightering Operations," IEEE SMC eNewsletter, Issue 31, June, 2010.
81. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic-Identification-System
82. Ship Type: http://www.bosunsmate.org/ais/message5.php
83. J. Goñi, and I. Martincorena. Information Theory Toolbox v1.0. Univ. of Navarra - Dpt. Physics & App. Math. Pamplona, Spain, 2007.
84. M. Wei, G. Chen, J Cruz, L. Haynes, M. Kruger, & E. Blasch "Game-Theoretic Modeling and Control of Military Operations with Partially Emotional Civilian Players", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 44, No. 3, Elsevier, Feb, 2008.